Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 81 63
Rank change year-on-year -45 -18 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,393 1,548 3,644
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.58% 3.69% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 3.98% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,078 2,774
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,225 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -6.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,205 38,927 81,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.18% 92.83% 85.82%
Number of salaries quoted 40,871 22,769 59,504
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -39 1,266 £77,500 +3.33% 526
London +5 679 £87,500 +2.94% 247
Work from Home -20 609 £70,000 -2.77% 397
UK excluding London -109 591 £67,500 -3.57% 376
North of England -30 275 £69,310 -3.72% 91
North West -29 126 £70,000 -3.45% 63
South East -108 125 £75,000 +11.11% 134
Yorkshire -41 101 £69,310 -4.06% 8
Midlands -71 57 £67,500 +3.85% 32
South West -88 56 £62,500 -8.79% 46
North East -9 48 £67,500 +35.00% 20
East of England -34 41 £60,100 +4.52% 43
West Midlands -46 35 £72,500 +3.57% 12
Scotland -76 31 £60,000 -20.00% 11
East Midlands -66 21 £66,000 +1.54% 19
Wales -25 9 £53,171 -20.64% 9
Northern Ireland -39 6 £62,500 +13.64% 13
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.29%) Apache
2 18 (1.29%) Confluence
3 17 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (1.01%) JBoss
6 13 (0.93%) IIS
7 12 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.65%) CMS
8 9 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.29%) Appian
10 4 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 3 (0.22%) nginx
11 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.50%) Maya
4 6 (0.43%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.072%) Actimize
6 1 (0.072%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.072%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.072%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.072%) Quorum
6 1 (0.072%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.072%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 760 (54.56%) AWS
2 579 (41.56%) Azure
3 302 (21.68%) GCP
4 243 (17.44%) Serverless
5 151 (10.84%) SaaS
6 120 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
7 117 (8.40%) GitHub
8 115 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
9 110 (7.90%) Amazon S3
10 85 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
11 80 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 76 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
13 66 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
14 57 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
15 55 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 52 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
17 47 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
17 47 (3.37%) OpenShift
18 41 (2.94%) Datadog
19 40 (2.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.66%) Broadband
2 13 (0.93%) HTTP
2 13 (0.93%) Network Security
3 9 (0.65%) DNS
4 7 (0.50%) AMQP
4 7 (0.50%) Firewall
4 7 (0.50%) Internet
5 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.36%) DHCP
6 5 (0.36%) MQTT
6 5 (0.36%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.29%) LTE
7 4 (0.29%) SNMP
7 4 (0.29%) WAN
8 3 (0.22%) Modbus
8 3 (0.22%) Multicast
9 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.14%) RFID
9 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (13.78%) NoSQL
2 175 (12.56%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (9.48%) MongoDB
4 106 (7.61%) SQL Server
5 70 (5.03%) MySQL
6 68 (4.88%) DynamoDB
7 61 (4.38%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.80%) Redis
10 38 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
11 36 (2.58%) BigQuery
12 28 (2.01%) Big Data
13 22 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (1.51%) RDBMS
15 15 (1.08%) Pinecone
16 14 (1.01%) Power BI
17 12 (0.86%) DB2
18 11 (0.79%) Data Lake
19 9 (0.65%) Tableau
20 8 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 188 (13.50%) Git
2 123 (8.83%) Jenkins
3 106 (7.61%) GitLab
4 51 (3.66%) JIRA
5 50 (3.59%) TeamCity
6 38 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 33 (2.37%) JUnit
8 31 (2.23%) CircleCI
9 30 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.94%) Selenium
11 20 (1.44%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.29%) Maven
13 17 (1.22%) Mockito
14 15 (1.08%) Claude Code
15 14 (1.01%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.93%) Vite
17 8 (0.57%) JMeter
17 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
17 8 (0.57%) Postman
17 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 408 (29.29%) Finance
2 348 (24.98%) Social Skills
3 155 (11.13%) Banking
4 111 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.82%) Law
6 89 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
7 72 (5.17%) Retail
8 68 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (3.80%) Telecoms
10 46 (3.30%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.66%) Back Office
12 25 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.36%) Advertising
13 19 (1.36%) Billing
13 19 (1.36%) Legal
14 15 (1.08%) Games
15 14 (1.01%) Marketing
16 12 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 474 (34.03%) Developer
2 376 (26.99%) Senior
3 277 (19.89%) Software Engineer
4 214 (15.36%) Architect
5 185 (13.28%) Lead
6 119 (8.54%) Senior Developer
7 115 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 108 (7.75%) Java Developer
9 94 (6.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 94 (6.75%) Solutions Architect
10 91 (6.53%) Java Engineer
11 72 (5.17%) .NET Developer
12 59 (4.24%) Software Developer
13 54 (3.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 52 (3.73%) Lead Developer
15 49 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.09%) Java Software Engineer
17 42 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
18 41 (2.94%) C# Developer
19 40 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (22.54%) React
2 291 (20.89%) .NET
3 280 (20.10%) RESTful
4 221 (15.87%) Node.js
5 219 (15.72%) Spring
6 211 (15.15%) REST
7 194 (13.93%) Spring Boot
8 174 (12.49%) Kafka
9 107 (7.68%) AngularJS
10 92 (6.60%) gRPC
11 83 (5.96%) .NET Core
12 76 (5.46%) HTML
13 68 (4.88%) CSS
14 66 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
15 63 (4.52%) .NET Framework
16 61 (4.38%) Vue
17 58 (4.16%) ASP.NET
18 55 (3.95%) Middleware
18 55 (3.95%) OAuth
19 52 (3.73%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 406 (29.15%) Cloud Native
2 249 (17.88%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 91 (6.53%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.23%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
8 41 (2.94%) Data Structures
9 39 (2.80%) Algorithms
10 31 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 25 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.72%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.72%) Virtual Team
13 20 (1.44%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
15 16 (1.15%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.15%) Public Cloud
16 15 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.10%) Linux
2 38 (2.73%) Windows
3 17 (1.22%) Unix
4 16 (1.15%) Android
5 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.36%) CentOS
6 5 (0.36%) Debian
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.072%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (48.89%) CI/CD
2 557 (39.99%) Agile
3 547 (39.27%) DevOps
4 523 (37.54%) Software Engineering
5 391 (28.07%) Containerisation
6 314 (22.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 299 (21.46%) Mentoring
8 297 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
9 286 (20.53%) Event-Driven
10 279 (20.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 272 (19.53%) Test Automation
12 252 (18.09%) AI
13 227 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 192 (13.78%) Computer Science
15 171 (12.28%) Scrum
16 168 (12.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 157 (11.27%) Clean Code
17 157 (11.27%) Roadmaps
17 157 (11.27%) Technical Leadership
18 155 (11.13%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 452 (32.45%) Java
2 389 (27.93%) Python
3 289 (20.75%) SQL
4 263 (18.88%) JavaScript
5 250 (17.95%) C#
6 220 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 135 (9.69%) Go
8 53 (3.80%) Scala
9 45 (3.23%) C++
10 43 (3.09%) PHP
11 35 (2.51%) Bash
11 35 (2.51%) C
12 30 (2.15%) Ruby
13 22 (1.58%) Kotlin
13 22 (1.58%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.22%) PowerShell
15 16 (1.15%) Shell Script
16 14 (1.01%) Rust
17 10 (0.72%) Groovy
18 9 (0.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 199 (14.29%) Degree
2 131 (9.40%) Security Cleared
3 116 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 88 (6.32%) SC Cleared
5 60 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 36 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.51%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.51%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.36%) CISSP
13 16 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (0.86%) CISM
14 12 (0.86%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.57%) PhD
16 7 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.43%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (6.53%) QA
2 31 (2.23%) GDPR
3 27 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 17 (1.22%) NIST
6 16 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 11 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.72%) NCSC
9 9 (0.65%) GRC
10 6 (0.43%) IFRS
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.29%) SLA
12 4 (0.29%) WCAG
13 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) SEPA
14 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.072%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 426 (30.58%) Docker
2 15 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.072%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 435 (31.23%) Kubernetes
2 262 (18.81%) Terraform
3 82 (5.89%) Grafana
4 79 (5.67%) Ansible
5 40 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.87%) Argo
7 18 (1.29%) Kibana
8 14 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.50%) Cilium
11 6 (0.43%) Puppet
12 4 (0.29%) Istio
12 4 (0.29%) Packer
12 4 (0.29%) Rancher
13 3 (0.22%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) MIIS
14 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 124 (8.90%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.67%) Google
3 51 (3.66%) Oracle
4 45 (3.23%) Typelevel
5 20 (1.44%) OpenAI
6 17 (1.22%) IBM
7 15 (1.08%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.08%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.08%) SAP
8 14 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.93%) AppDynamics
10 12 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.72%) Cisco
11 10 (0.72%) Databricks
12 9 (0.65%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.57%) Adobe
13 8 (0.57%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.57%) Software AG
13 8 (0.57%) Splunk
14 7 (0.50%) Guidewire